Seattle gun buy-back fraud exposed…in Pennsylvania

Seattle Gun Rights Examiner ^ | Dave Workman

[marktwain]

Hot on the heels of Friday’s Seattle Times revelation about anti-gun Mayor Mike McGinn’s error-ridden gun buy-back, a newspaper in Pennsylvania yesterday published a lengthy piece on the poor track record of such events, with particular focus on Seattle.

The Norristown Times Herald story picked apart Seattle’s first buy-back, concentrating on revelations about that exercise that were part of a 2004 report called “Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review” published by the National Academy of Sciences.

“A Seattle, Wash., gun buy-back program in September 1992 that used $50 bank vouchers was evaluated with police reports during the six-month period after the program,” the story recalls, “a telephone survey of the community, a voluntary, written survey of some participants and a statistical analysis of firearm deaths in the 1996 book ‘Under Fire: Gun Buy-Backs, Exchanges and Amnesty Programs.’ The Seattle program was inspired by three shootings of teenagers in early 1992 that resulted in two deaths.”

The story also notes what gun rights activists have known all along: Homicides actually increased after the buy-back, by 43 percent, and firearms-related homicides jumped 67 percent.

[marktwain]

The primary purpose is to push the idea that guns are illegitimate, as are armed citizens.

The major effect is to waste public resources and defraud ignorant people who have inherited guns.

[smokingfrog]

bfl

[BitWielder1]

The left would have us believe that taking guns away from honest folks is somehow getting guns "off the street", whatever that means.
A gun is a gun is a gun and it's always bad.
They are of course mistaken. A gun is a tool and how it's used, good or bad, depends on who's holding it and why.
And yes, people are cajoled into parting with useful, antique and possibly valuable guns for scrap value.

[vette6387]

“And yes, people are cajoled into parting with useful, antique and possibly valuable guns for scrap value.”

Nah, the cops will “steal” anything that comes in that has value.

[Cyber Liberty]

In AZ it’s the end of that era. A new law requires the guns from “buybacks” (a misnomer if there ever was one) be sold and not destroyed. Two effects: There is now ample incentive to track the good ones and Phoenix announced they aren’t going to do them anymore because it defeats the purpose of the program.